Tuesday, September 7th, 2004
As suspected before, Microsoft's Harry Katz confirmed today that Microsoft's IPR claims apply to their PRA algorithm alone. The rest of Sender-ID is unencumbered unless used in conjunction with PRA.
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2004
According to Slashdot story and the Register Microsoft has been granted a patent for the use of a keyboard TAB key to navigate through a web page. No word yet on the licensing fees for the makers and end-users of those "other" browsers like Mozilla, Opera, etc.
And of course Mosaic ...
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Monday, September 6th, 2004
A very INTERESTING proposal has come up in MARID. John Levine, my old ASRG co-chair proposed the use of fetchmail's algorithm for Sender-ID instead of Microsoft's PRA to go around IPR issues. Being that it is Labor Day, it remains to be seen what the reaction would be. Adding to ...
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Saturday, September 4th, 2004
Quite a few things happened in MARID. First, an extension of the last call was announced for Friday, September 10th. Second, the Debian Project rejected Sender-ID. Third, Earthlink is leaning against Sender-ID also (which especially suprising since the other three members of the ASTA are for it).
UPDATE: After getting an ...
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Tuesday, August 31st, 2004
Copyright ? 2004 Yakov Shafranovich (asrg@shaftek.org). This article is under a different copyright than the rest of this blog. This article was originally published at CircleID.
Part II
While everything seemed fine and various participants in these discussions were celebrating the merger of these proposals into one, as well as the support ...
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Tuesday, August 31st, 2004
Copyright ? 2004 Yakov Shafranovich (asrg@shaftek.org). This article is under a different copyright than the rest of this blog. This article was originally published in CircleID.
Part I
A long long time ago when the Internet was still young and most people were still using clunky Apples, PCs and mainframes; two documents ...
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2004
Microsoft posted today their new license for Sender-ID protocol (which grew out of SPF/RMX/DMP/DRIP/etc. work in the ASRG). It still requires a signed license directly from MSFT for each implementer . More so, the license states excplictly on the bottom that the information on licensors may be published publically. Others ...
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Saturday, July 24th, 2004
Apparently the long debate about Microsoft's license for Sender-ID has attracted the Richard M. Stallman of GNU himself. In a recent message to the MARID list he said:
Microsoft's Sender-ID license is directly incompatible with free
software regardless of which free software license is used. Free
software means users are free to ...
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Friday, July 23rd, 2004
Today the 9/11 Commission published its final report. What is interesting is that over 500,000 copies of this report have been printed for sale at bookstores as well as for sale via the Government Printing Office. Except there is one catch - the text is public domain just like all ...
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Friday, May 14th, 2004
Movable Type made an announcement today with changes to their licensing scheme. In particular more than one author and three blogs is now being charged. Lots of people are screaming. I have been thinking about adding another blog, but will wait until this shakes out. Of course, there is always ...
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